The Ultimate SmartyPig Giveaway: $200!

by J. Money on Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Gooooooooooooooooood morning friends! Not only is today Pay Day, but it’s also “Give Away $200 Worth of Gift Cards Day!” Yup, SmartyPig & J. to the Motha F’in Dollar Sign is teaming up to give y’all some money and help spread the good financial word. It’s a good time to be on this blog ;)

About SmartyPig

For those not already familiar with SmartyPig, they’re a free online piggy bank for people saving for specific financial goals – perhaps something like a wedding or vacay or even flat-screen TV. But unlike other banks (and this is where it turns sexy) SmartyPig allows your friends and family members to help you save by sharing your goal! All while keeping your personal information safe and secure.

Birthdays, holidays, graduation, that baby shower coming up? Tell them to log onto SmartyPig.com, search your email address, and help you get the stuff you REALLY want. They even have a widget you can grab off your account so you can promote it on your Facebook page ;) Pretty slick, right?

The SmartyPig Giveaway

To help spread the word, SmartyPig is giving us THREE gift cards to give out today – two $50 cards, and one grand prize $100 card!!! Which means you get three chances to win! All cards are redeemable right into your own SmartyPig account (you’ll have to create one free online if you don’t already have one, but don’t worry it’s pretty easy – I actually got to test the goods with a $50 card myself and it makes the process much happier ;) And if you’ve already got an account, great! All you’ll have to do is plug in the gift code we give you and you’ll be all set.)

How to win!

This is the fun part :) All you have to do to enter is tell us WHAT you’re currently saving for – that’s it! Drop it in the comments below by this Sunday, June 20th, by 10pm EST and we’ll Random.org the winners there shortly after (and alert everyone on this very same post – so keep your eyes open!) I’ll go first: I’m saving up for another trip abroad! Can’t get enough these days… Now it’s Your turn, GOOD LUCK! I hope they go out to my 3 favorite readers ;)

PS: For more info on SmartyPig, click here.PPS: If you hate saving for anything, click here.

First of all J, I love your contests, they are always fun and the prize is always something worthwhile!

My wife and I are currently saving for a new bed. Not what one would generally save for but it’s the same queen size one she has had since getting out of high school in 2004 and it just needs to be replaced so any of the gift cards would help for sure!

I’m saving for my expenses for senior year of college – books, parking permit, booze. Ya know, the usual.However, those expenses also include life post graduation and although that’s exciting its still kinda really scary at the same time.

In a quick run down of my goals that I keep repeating to myself over and over again:

Lose Weight
Get Healthy
Pay Off Sallie Mae
Buy House

We can translate those into things I’m saving for:

New SEXY clothes for my new SEXY body
New Workout Clothes and Equipment for my new SEXY body
A HUGE extra payment at the end of each month to pay down Principle Balance!!
A little extra each month into my House Fund!!

I LOVE saving for a specific goal. Only problem…once I have that huge amount saved up…I struggle actually spending it! But I’ll take that problem over the other option….

This is so weird, I just found out about SmartyPig this morning while watching Good Morning America. Well, I’m saving up for my baby. We just found out that I’m due next spring. It’s very exciting. Fingers crossed!!

i’m aggressively paying down my debt…but am simultaneously saving up to fly to canada (surprisingly/ridiculously expensive since i live near chicago and am headed to the glittering province of saskatchewan…) to see my heart :)

I have many tiny amounts of money saved in several places for things I can’t afford.Which is everything,ha!I am saving for a trip to New York to see my sister,she just moved there.Also,I am saving for my sons birthday.Those are my main ones right now. Thanks and have a nice week!

Me? LOL . . . Im saving cuz I have never saved before! 43 years old and at age 39, I realized that I was screwed! So, right now . . .working on saving for a $10,000 EF (I’m at $6k right now) and working to save $50K in another regular savings account by time I turn 50. 50K by 50, I say! A nice long term goal, but I think i can make it. This Smarty Pig promotion gift card would be awesome as I have though about transferring my savings goal from ING to Smarty Pig.

Tis hard, I have really become aware of my cash flow since the economy tanked. It’s been a real wake up call!

I am saving up so I can get a new laptop! The one I’m on has glue on the bottom hinges, broken USB ports, a CD drive that hardly works, a bent and taped up a/c adapter, and something rattling inside! It is seriously time to replace this thing. Help me please :-)!!!

I am currently saving for a new car. My car has 180,000 miles on it and I don’t know when she’ll go. My goal is to save 8,000 dollars by the end of the year and be ready for a new car if I need one. I’m just saving $400 dollars every month as if it was a car payment.

I am saving for a car. My husband and I have managed to share a car for the last eight years. We are now planning on having a second child and have decided that a second car would be a good thing to have. Our plan is to save up whatever we can until I get pregnant and then try to stretch it another 4 months or so after I get pregnant. Whatever we have saved by that time will be our car budget!

Nice. I’m saving for a vacation next summer. This summer we are all staying home to make sure we build up our reserves again, after we depleted them to buy a bigger house… so no money for vacay this year.

I’m saving for a treadmill! I just had a baby so I cancelled my gym membership (since I can’t take her with me). I’ve gotta find a way to exercise at home in order to keep my sanity (and maybe drop a little babyweight as well). :)

I’m saving to replace my 17 year old car. It currently has 220,000 miles on it and it is still running strong. But eventually it will be time to replace my trusty Subaru and I want to have the money in the bank, ready to go.

I’m saving up for a case (step two) for my new dslr (step one). While not the most frugal of purchases, I got a fantastic deal and am planning to keep doing photo work for others as an extra (and extra fun!) stream of income :) What can beat your passion AND money?!

Sweet! I’m saving up for my wedding and beyond! My fiancée Steve and I are getting married New Years Eve, and then I will be moving down to his Army base for the next year or so. Any bit of money to help keep us afloat as we navigate married life would be great! :)

Love the pig, their site is so clean! My savings goal in there is for a Piano, but seeing as I just was given one by a relative, that is now Piano accessories! (books, maybe a guitar to go along with it, etc.)

I am currently saving for my tuition, as well as for some traveling I want to do to south America. I want to do this outreach trip at my university in which we travel to do community service down there.
i kinda also need new speakers =]

I’m saving for a bunch of things! The biggie right now is a set of good Calphalon pans. I know it’s not as exciting as a vacation, but $500 for all the pans I want is a lot of money, and I would use them every day with a great deal of joy. :)

My husband and I are saving for a down payment on a home for our family. We are in the BAD position of owning two townhomes (we’re trying to sell) and want a home big enough for four. Great contest thanks for letting everyone play!
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Paris, always saving a little bit in the background for the ever present “gotta visit Paris” trip. I honestly didn’t know that Smarty Pig was anything more than a savings/budgeting-type blog. Did not know you could actually setup accounts there, so I’ll have to check that out.

I’m saving for a trip back to South Jersey to see my dad and other relatives and friends in the area. Hoping to time it so that I can still enjoy the last of the tomatoes but it’s not quite so stinkin’ hot and humid. aMaybe even go “down the shore” and walk on the beach.

Awesome idea. I am saving for several things (trip to Russia with friends next summer), but my current obsession is the Expesso Fitness upright bike – it has a built in TV screen with virtual bike trails that you can ride, or my favorite – you can play a game connecting coins to “slay dragons” – it motivates you to work out more because it turns cardio into a video game. Having one in my bedroom would just be awesome. Wish me luck!

My wife and I are saving for some home improvements. Specifically, we would really like to restore or rebuild our deck. We’ve been hesitant with inviting company over since our deck feels like it’s going to fall apart any minute.

I am only doing the boring. Saving for retirement, we are so far behind of where we should be. I will be saving on the side to return to Oklahoma to see my two beautiful grandkids again (age 12 days and 8 years). Thanks for the contest J.

I’m saving to have a ton of insulation added to the house I just bought. I can’t believe it’s something none of the previous owners did since the pipes freeze regularly every winter, but to each his own, I suppose!

I’m saving for a trip abroad. Each year Sonia King, the mosaic artist, leads a class where you spend part of the day viewing ancient/historic mosaics and part of the day working on a mosaic of your own. I so want to go!

I am saving for my nanny conference next year that runs total anywhere from $600 to $1000. I used Smartypig this year for my conference fees, airfare, and hotel fees. It was so awesome to have the “cash” already in the bank before I left on the plane! I <3 Smartypig and their great service! I have turned alot of nannies on them and this blog!

And the winners are…..
The first $50: Amy R.
The second $50: Kelsey #2 (comment #86)
And the GRAND PRIZE of $100: Brent Schenk! CONGRATS EVERYONE!!! I hope this money helps each and every one of you get closer to your goals :) Keep on saving!

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